Then we’d recall their origins in Genesis 19:30–38, in the not-so-nice story of Lot and his daughters. After escaping the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, they got their father drunk so that they could become pregnant by him, since their husbands had refused to leave the city and had died. One gave birth to a son named Moab, and he became the father of the Moabite people. In ancient thinking, this made sense. If your ancestors were immoral, you’d likely be the same way too. Look at the story of Ruth with this in mind. Not only was Ruth a Moabite but she was even in the same situation as
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